What was the USSR?

[Djehuti]

I would like to recomend the excellent article-series "What was the USSR?" by the brittish Aufheben group:
http://www.geocities.com/aufheben2/auf_6_ussr1.html
http://www.geocities.com/aufheben2/auf_7_ussr2.html
http://www.geocities.com/aufheben2/auf_8_ussr_3.html
http://www.geocities.com/aufheben2/auf_9_ussr4.html
I have also made a .pdf file including all parts of the series available on the net:
http://upl.silentwhisper.net/uplfolders/up...the_ussr_en.pdf (http://upl.silentwhisper.net/uplfolders/upload2/what_was_the_ussr_en.pdf)

This is probably the best analyzis on the USSR that I have ever read. It also includes a critique on the most common trotskyist theories (Cliff, Ticktin, etc).
I would very much recomend you to print it out and read...it is great.

[Domingo]

Not bad, comrade. A bit long, but truely worth reading. The Soviet power was a great one.

Damn the fall of it.

[Encrypted Soldier]

Originally posted by [email protected] 20 2005, 06:58 PM
Not bad, comrade. A bit long, but truely worth reading. The Soviet power was a great one.

Damn the fall of it.
The Soviet power was a great military power, Lenin was a good leader, but then comes Stalin, who was more of a fascist then a communist.

Stalinism sucks.

[Wiesty]

he speaks the truth, the ussr sucked, it was a facist union, who said they would help the working class but in the end just screwed everyone over.

[Kurt Crover]

Originally posted by [email protected] 20 2005, 06:58 PM
A bit long


Yes it was long. I haven't got time to read it all... argh

[Jersey Devil]

Originally posted by [email protected] 21 2005, 02:11 AM
he speaks the truth, the ussr sucked, it was a facist union, who said they would help the working class but in the end just screwed everyone over.
Can anyone see the irony with you saying that while having a Castro avatar? Fact is that you can't say that and at the same time with a strait face support Castro as the Cuban economy was kept at a sustainable level due to the large subsidies it recieved from the Soviet Union.

[viva le revolution]

True Cuba did survive initially through the Soviet unions assistance but only because Stalin was still under the impression that he was heading a pure communist state!
But Stalin's Russia beats Hitler's Germany anyday in my book.

[schumi]

what the fuck??? stalin died in 1953 and Castro seized power in 1959... <_<

[Jersey Devil]

I was just looking over my previous posts and couldn&#39;t help but notice this unbelievably fallacious assertion by "viva le revolution". Wow, just wow.